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2nd Year 2015-2016 (Archive)



The Second Year Circle will meet on Thursdays from 5 to 7 PM, in Smith Hall room 404. Here is a campus map.

Dates: The 2015-2016 Second Year Circle will meet Thursdays from October 1st- December 10th (except for Thanksgiving Day, November 26th), and from January 14th- June 9th (except for March 24th).

The instructors Austin and Lucas look forward to meeting you!

Session Worksheets Homework
Session 1: October 1, 2015 Worksheet
Session 2: October 8, 2015 Special Lecture
Session 3: October 15, 2015 Special Lecture
Session 4: October 22, 2015 Special Lecture
Session 5: October 29, 2015 Mathematical Auction Problems
Knot Problem
Session 6: November 5, 2015 Groups and Symmetry Worksheet
Session 7: November 12, 2015 Groups Worksheet
Session 8: November 19, 2015 The Group of Permutations Worksheet
Session 9: Dec 3, 2015 Functions and homeomorphisms No Homework
Session 10: Dec 10, 2015 Tangle Review
Session 11: Jan 14, 2016 Mathematical Auction Problems
Session 12: Jan 21, 2016 Penney Ante A write up on the topic
Session 13: Jan 28, 2016 Markov Chains No Homework
Session 14: Feb 4, 2016 Number Theory No Homework
Session 15: Feb 11, 2016 Markov Chains Combinatorics Worksheet
Session 16: Feb 18, 2016 Combinatorics Combinatorics Worksheet
Session 17: Feb 25, 2016 Combinatorics Continued Combinatorics Worksheet
Session 18: Mar 3, 2016 More Combinatorics! No Homework
Session 19: Mar 10, 2016 Equivalence relations Worksheet
Session 20: Mar 17, 2016 Gluing Polygons to get Surfaces Worksheet
Session 21: March 31, 2016 Polynomials Worksheet
Session 22: April 7, 2016 Polynomials and Primes No Homework
Session 22: April 14, 2016 Braids No Homework
Session 22: April 21, 2016 Invariants Worksheet
Session 22: April 28, 2016 Knot Invariants No Homework
Session 22: May 5, 2016 More About Primes No Homework
Session 22: May 12, 2016 labyrinth No Homework
Session 22: May 19, 2016 20 Questions with a Lie No Homework
Session 23: May 26, 2016 Three Games on a Graph Problems
Session 24: June 2, 2016 Practice Olympiad Problems